IBBY-Yamada 2016: South Africa

IBBY South Africa together with PRAESA, winner of the IBBY-Asahi Award 2014, will co-host a one-day workshop to discuss and influence efforts to develop a reading culture in South Africa. Topics include:

The potential and actual role of adult and children’s literature to give direction to projects in children’s bi-literacy development and reading promotion.

The disabling distinction between “learning to read” and “reading to learn” for reading culture development in Africa

The support by government, publishers, universities, NGOs and other relevant bodies for multilingual literature (African languages and English)